Sufjan Stevens Quotes

I quickly learned that you don't have to be incarcerated by suffering, and that, in spite of the dysfunctional nature of your family, you are an individual in full possession of your life.

Sufjan Stevens

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• Individual
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• The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Time
  • Different
  • Writing

• I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Heart
  • Guy
  • Nice

• A busybody's work is never done.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Work
  • Done
  • Never

• In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Boy
  • Living

• With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • People
  • Great
  • Me

• A good leader must be fair.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Good
  • Leader
  • Fair

• When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • You
  • Commitment
  • Honesty

• What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Time
  • Play
  • Investment

• I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Learn
  • Advice
  • Mistakes

• I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • School
  • Childhood
  • Very

• I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Difficult
  • Kid
  • Arts

• I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Ocean
  • Down

• My mother never really thought I could become anything.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Mother
  • Thought
  • Become

• Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Today
  • Political
  • Events

• Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

  

  Hannah More
  • Done
  • Reasons
  • Gives

• As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • World
  • War
  • Victory

• What are the targets at Arsenal? Are they to be a successful business or a successful team?

  

  David Seaman
  • Business
  • Team

• I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Family
  • High
  • Dad

• I love modeling, and I missed fashion and my friends and family in fashion and the creativity that I'm able to express through it. I didn't feel I was getting enough of that through my acting.

  

  Amber Valletta
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Fashion

• It was a family name on my mother's side, and I thought my own name Pratt, if I ever got known in the theatre might be unfortunate.

  

  Boris Karloff
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Theatre

• I did a reality TV show in London called 'I'd Do Anything,' and when I got put in the program, they said, 'What is your ultimate dream?' and I said, 'Broadway.'

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Dream
  • Reality
  • London

• I quickly learned that you don't have to be incarcerated by suffering, and that, in spite of the dysfunctional nature of your family, you are an individual in full possession of your life.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Family
  • Suffering
  • Individual